History Timeline Grade 8

Which Year Norse explorer Leif Erikson leads a Viking expedition to Iceland and sees unfamiliar land. Later he returns to formally explore this new world?

• 1000 A.D.

• 1200.A.D

• 1100 A.D.

• 900 A.D.

In what year approximately the Indigenous peoples on Canada's west coast establish a large trading

network?

• 1200

• 1600

• 1400

• 1300

What date and year did Samuel de Champlain, a French citizen, establishes a new French settlement named New France in Québec City?

• May 14,1607

• Aug 4, 1807

• July 3,1707

• July 3, 1608

On What date Montreal is established by Paul de Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve?

• May 17,1642

• May 16,1647

• May 14,1701

• July 15,1642

In which date the Seven year war begins between the British and French?

• May 17,1856

• July 17,1756

• May 17,1756

• June 17,1854

On what date the Seven Years War ends with the Treaty of Paris. Britain gains control and ownership of the remaining French colonies in New France

• Feb 09,1768

• Feb 10,1851

• Feb 10,1763

• Feb 15,1858

On what date Captain James Cook arrives on the west coast of Vancouver Island during one of his explorations on the sea?

• April 29,1777

• March 23,1779

• April 28,1856

• March 29,1778

On what date The North West Company is established ?

• April 24,1779

• May 23,1771

• April 24,1857

• May 23,1777

On what date The War of 1812 ends with the Treaty of Ghent?

• Dec 23,1800

• Apr 13,1857

• Dec 24,1814

• Dec 24,1758

On what date The Hudson Bay Company and North West Company amalgamate into one company?

• March 21,1821

• March 21,1921

• March 21,1829

• March 21,1721